This week did not go as planned. I was ready to pull the trigger on the stable branch yesterday when the 3D viewer crash report came in. I would like to get that addressed before I create the stable branch. Once this fix is committed, I will create a stable branch (4.0.0-rc1) for testing. This means no new features (except possibly Tom's Eeschema to Pcbnew update patch) until after the stable release. We will continue to apply bug fixes to the product branch so the autobuilders can be used for testing. I will periodically merge the fixes into the stable release branch until it's ready for prime time.
I just committed a change in how the build version string is generated which should fix the long standing issue of the bzr version not getting updated automatically without running `make rebuild_cache`. I also added the ability to define the version string during CMake configuration which will allow packagers to define the appropriate version string for stable release builds. Configuring CMake like this: cmake -DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION="4.0.0-rc1" -DKICAD_REPO_NAME="stable" will result in a build string of: 4.0.0-rc1-stable I've only tested this on windows so please let me know if you find any issues on other platforms. For those of you who are using the msys2 package builder file PKGBUILD to build kicad, please note that the msys2 version of bzr is broken and will fail attempting to determine the bzr version. Please comment out the bzr source build dependency in PKGBUILD and use one of the native bzr windows installers instead. Make sure to add the bzr executable to your system path so CMake can find it during configuration. I will remove it from the PKGBUILD file and send a pull request to the msys2 devs when I get a chance. Thanks, Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
